Hedge Fund Cybersecurity: Financial Services Cybersecurity

Financial services cybersecurity, endpoint protection, and threat mitigation

Managing cyber threats has become part of your cost of doing business. Cybercriminals have leveraged digitalization, hybrid working, and geopolitics to pose financial, reputational, and even existential threats. Asset managers, hedge funds, and private equity firms make inviting targets. In response, regulators including the SEC and FCA have sharpened cyber compliance requirements to enhance financial services cybersecurity.l

If you’re concerned about cybersecurity, we can help. As an award-winning services provider to the buy-side industry for over 20 years, we’ve tailored our scalable threat management solutions to your security, compliance, and operational requirements. We offer cybersecurity services for private equity firms and cybersecurity solutions for hedge funds.

Our Cybersecurity Services are part of our Technology Services portfolio. They include Linedata Protect Managed Detection, Response, and Remediation (MDRR), as well as policy development, training, vulnerability assessment and testing, third-party risk management, and CISO-as-a-Service.

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The Linedata cybersecurity services advantage.

Rapid

Running your business is complicated. Advanced cybersecurity protection shouldn’t be. We offer an all-in-one-solution: from rapid onboarding, policy definition, and solution configuration to lifecycle management, and full remediation. Plus, ONE relationship gets you best-in-class service from cybersecurity professionals AND investment management industry expertise.

Reliable

As cybersecurity and managed services experts, we’ve exclusively served the buyside for over 20 years, so we understand your regulatory obligations and operational requirements. Our solutions provide robust protection based on industry best practice and regulatory guidelines with full audit trail reporting. Our certifications and qualifications include CCSP, CISA, CISM, CISSP and CSSLP.

Cost-Effective

The right cybersecurity protection is priceless – and it doesn’t need to cost a fortune. Linedata Protect and Linedata Protect Premium are offered on a consumption-based model with no minimums. You benefit from transparent pricing and cost certainty and can scale up or down as your needs evolve. Our packages make holistic cybersecurity protection affordable, even for the smallest startup firm.

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Cybersecurity for asset management: Choose the right package for your needs

Standard Core Services

Linedata Protect (EDRR Package)

Endpoint Detection and Response
Behavior-based next-generation antivirus
24/7/365 Security Operations Center (SOC)
24/7/365 Service Desk Remediation Team
Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)
Standard Compliance and Threat Reporting

Policy Development and Evaluation
We audit, create, evaluate, and update your policies, procedures, and controls to support regulatory compliance and alignment with best practices.

Security Awareness Training
On-demand interactive training educates staff on best practices and common threats. Scenario-based exercises and testing prepare your team for cyber events.

End User Vulnerability Testing
Emails simulating commonly used phishing tactics are sent to random staff to build awareness, test for weaknesses, and identify knowledge gaps and training needs.

Premium Services

Linedata Protect (MDRR Package)

Endpoint Detection and Response
Behavior-based next-generation antivirus
24/7/365 Security Operations Center (SOC)
24/7/365 Service Desk Remediation Team
Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)
Standard Compliance and Threat Reporting
Security Incident Event Management (SIEM)
Public and private cloud log aggregation and analysis
Round-the-clock enterprise threat remediation
Quarterly briefings with your Security Team

Third-Party Risk Management
We evaluate your vendors and supply chain, reviewing DDQs and relationships for potential third-party vulnerabilities and provide risk mitigation strategies and tactics.

Vulnerability Assessment
360-degree risk analysis goes beyond point-in-time DDQs to identify potential areas of exploitation. We help you prioritize “at risk” areas for rapid remediation.

CISO-as-a-Service
Senior cybersecurity leadership as an extension of your team ensures business and operational alignment within your organization, management team, and with external stakeholders.

Penetration Testing
We conduct authorized simulated cyberattacks on networks and applications to evaluate the security of the target systems and provide recommendations to mitigate weaknesses.

Microsoft 365 Assessment
On-demand assessment of your firm’s Microsoft 365 subscription and service agreement to analyze and help you optimize operations, configuration, and usage.

Executive Impersonation Protection
Protect against financial losses and reputational damage caused by fraudulent emails being sent by cybercriminals who impersonate your leadership and other members of your team.

Standard Core Services

Linedata Protect (EDRR Package)

Endpoint Detection and Response
Behavior-based next-generation antivirus
24/7/365 Security Operations Center (SOC)
24/7/365 Service Desk Remediation Team
Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)
Standard Compliance and Threat Reporting

Policy Development and Evaluation
We audit, create, evaluate, and update your policies, procedures, and controls to support regulatory compliance and alignment with best practices.

Security Awareness Training
On-demand interactive training educates staff on best practices and common threats. Scenario-based exercises and testing prepare your team for cyber events.

End User Vulnerability Testing
Emails simulating commonly used phishing tactics are sent to random staff to build awareness, test for weaknesses, and identify knowledge gaps and training needs.

Premium Services

Linedata Protect (MDRR Package)

Endpoint Detection and Response
Behavior-based next-generation antivirus
24/7/365 Security Operations Center (SOC)
24/7/365 Service Desk Remediation Team
Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)
Standard Compliance and Threat Reporting
Security Incident Event Management (SIEM)
Public and private cloud log aggregation and analysis
Round-the-clock enterprise threat remediation
Quarterly briefings with your Security Team

Third-Party Risk Management
We evaluate your vendors and supply chain, reviewing DDQs and relationships for potential third-party vulnerabilities and provide risk mitigation strategies and tactics.

Vulnerability Assessment
360-degree risk analysis goes beyond point-in-time DDQs to identify potential areas of exploitation. We help you prioritize “at risk” areas for rapid remediation.

CISO-as-a-Service
Senior cybersecurity leadership as an extension of your team ensures business and operational alignment within your organization, management team, and with external stakeholders.

Penetration Testing
We conduct authorized simulated cyberattacks on networks and applications to evaluate the security of the target systems and provide recommendations to mitigate weaknesses.

Microsoft 365 Assessment
On-demand assessment of your firm’s Microsoft 365 subscription and service agreement to analyze and help you optimize operations, configuration, and usage.

Executive Impersonation Protection
Protect against financial losses and reputational damage caused by fraudulent emails being sent by cybercriminals who impersonate your leadership and other members of your team.

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Linedata Protect: your fully managed cybersecurity solution

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

AI-based solution provides full-spectrum endpoint detection and response to threats including viruses, malware, hackers, and ransomware.

Behavior-based next-generation antivirus

Next-generation antivirus with heuristics uses advanced technology to spot malware including zero-day threats for fast isolation, control, and resolution.

Security Operations Center (SOC)

Highly trained cybersecurity experts in our 24/7/365 command center address threats as they occur, using best practices and leading-edge technology.

Service Desk remediation team

Round-the-clock remediation of all threats, whether these are detected by our systems and teams, or reported by a partner or member of your staff.

Security Orchestration Automation and Response

SOAR operationalizes the cybersecurity lifecycle, seamlessly aggregating the full protection suite, including EDR, antivirus, SIEM, and threat intelligence.

Compliance and threat reporting

Mitigate risk with demonstrable protection based on industry best practices and regulatory guidelines, with a full audit trail and regulatory reporting.

Security Incident Event Management (SIEM)

SIEM enables our security teams to detect and prioritize threats and respond quickly to limit the impact of incidents.

Cloud log aggregation

We continuously aggregate and analyze log data from your public and private cloud environments using advanced technology to identify and mitigate cyber threats.